Dell Inspiron 5000 vs Dell 15 Inspiron Gaming laptop

[ra5066]

Hi, trying to make a decision with a limited budget. I'm not a hardcore gamer but I want to be able to play Borderlands(all), Fallout 4, Wasteland 2(and 3 in the future) and similar games. Besides the price, is the only major difference is the video card?

Thx!

 

[hang-the-9]

Just the model of the laptop does not say much for what it has, there are tons of variations of these systems.

Since you already listed some games, what is your budget? For gaming, I would not go under about $800. This Dell is on sale now for $700, I'd jump on that. https/www.amazon.com/Dell-15-6-Inch-Quad-Core-i5-6300HQ-Processor/dp/B015PYYDMQ For anything faster you are looking at about $1,000 or more.

 

[ra5066]

Just the model of the laptop does not say much for what it has, there are tons of variations of these systems.

Since you already listed some games, what is your budget? For gaming, I would not go under about $800. This Dell is on sale now for $700, I'd jump on that. https/www.amazon.com/Dell-15-6-Inch-Quad-Core-i5-6300HQ-Processor/dp/B015PYYDMQ For anything faster you are looking at about $1,000 or more.

Oops!!! Here are the specs below: My budget is @ $1100


Inspiron 15 7000 series
Processor: 6th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-6700HQ Processor (6M Cache, up to 3.50 GHz)]
Operating System: Windows 10 Home, 64-bit, English
Memory: 8GB Single channel DDR3L 1600MHz (8GBx1)
Hard Drive: 1TB 5.4k Hybrid HDD + 8G Cache [1TB 5400 rpm Hybrid Hard Drive + 8GB Embedded Flash Cache]
Video Card: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 960M 4GB GDDR5
Display: 15.6-inch FHD (1920 x 1080) Anti-Glare LED-Backlit Display


Inspiron 15 5000 Series*Inspiron 15 5000 Series
Processor: 7th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-7500U Processor (4M Cache, up to 3.50 GHz)
Operating System: Windows 10 Home 64-bit English
Memory: 8GB Single Channel DDR4 2400MHz (8GBx1)
Hard Drive: 1TB 5400 rpm SATA Hard Drive
Video Card: AMD Radeon™ R7 M445 Graphics 4G GDDR5
LCD: 15.6-inch FHD (1920 x 1080) Anti-glare LED-Backlit Display
CD ROM/DVD ROM: Tray load DVD Drive (Reads and Writes to DVD/CD)

 

[hang-the-9]

http/www.xoticpc.com/msi-gs70-stealth-pro006-p-8589.html if you don't mind a larger screen.

The one I linked is better than either of the ones you listed, even though the CPU is better in the inspiron 7000, it won't do much for gaming and the other system has a larger solid state drive vs a Hybrid.

 

[jaguarskx]

The Dell Inspiron 15 7000 is more appropriate to play games. It has a quad core CPU, but more importantly, it has a GTX 960m which most gamers would consider to be minimum GPU that would be considered a "gaming GPU".

The Dell Inspiron 15 5000 has a dual core i7-7500u which is actually adequate to play games. In games that are CPU dependent having a quad core CPU can provided better performance. For example, in Fallout 4 a desktop with a dual core i3-6100 and a GTX 980 Ti gets an average of 85 FPS. A quad core i5-4790k and the GTX 980 Ti gets an average 98 FPS. That's based on benchmarks from Techspot that I looked at yesterday to reply to a different topic.

However, the Radeon R7 M445 is a very weak GPU. It is not much more powerful than a nVidia 920m which is a bit weaker than the integrated Intel HD 620 graphics core.